Alia Bhatt's Entry into the big league

Alia Bhatt is running a dream debut with Karan Johar's 'Student Of The Year' - the movie is based on three youngsters and Karan had released the first looks of the movie recently via twitter. The luck comes in not only for Alia, but also includes David Dhawan's son Varun Dhawan and Siddharth Malhotra.

Alia, daughter of Mahesh Bhatt and Soni Razdan was keen to join the Bollywood bandwagon and as per reports she used to be good at mimicking the acts of her favorite actresses, but if you are wondering what made her move away from main stream? It was her weight and yeah she was in the league of Sonakshi - a fatso. 

Alia had attended the auditions for 'Student Of The Year' where Karan Johar had spotter her, citing the special spark that was missing in an odd count of 100 girls at the audition. Karan Johar says there was something exuberant, confident and star-ly about Alia that made her stand out of the crowd. His only hiccup was her weight. So Karan Johar told her that she could get the role on one condition: she has to lose weight. Alia didn’t think twice before saying that she will. 

Thereafter followed the rigorous workouts and diet regimens for Alia Bhatt. It took her three months to lose 16 kilos. (gulp!)

The first promo of Student Of The Year will be releasing tomorrow, 2nd of august, (as usual, tune into videos.indiaviolet.com for the updates). The first poster of the movie has given in the impression of an young and youthful starcast and the audience have started expecting a new and fresh story (else a copy of hollywood movie!).

Alia in her childhood days had worked in ‘Sangharsh’, directed by Tanuja Chandra, which starred Akshay Kumar and Preity Zinta, in 1999.

‘Student of the Year’ also feature other debutants, like Varun Dhawan (Son of Director David Dhawan), Kayoze Irani (son of actor Boman Irani), and newcomer Siddharth Malhotra. It also features Kayoze’s father Boman Irani. Actor Rishi Kapoor plays the role of a gay, as Dean Yoginder Vasisht.

Varun who was keen on movies had left his education in Manchester to join movies, and he along with Siddharth had assisted Karan Johar while he was directing My Name Is Khan. Remembering this Karan Johar shared "My instinct and impulse is the main reason why I make films,'' says the 40-year-old filmmaker. "The boys knew each other well because of their work experience in MNIK. And their camaraderie helped fuel their screen interaction in Student of the Year. The story of SOTY is about two friends. And these two share a certain bond because they had done their internship together.''

The movie will release by October 11th and Karan is co-producing this movie with Shahrukh Khan’s Red Chilies Entertainment. Though, SRK does not appear in a major role in the movie, it is rumored that Shahrukh and Kajol will make a guest appearance in the movie. The movie went on floors on August 16th, 2011 by socialite Paremeshar Goodrej. Karan Johar turned director for this movie after a long time. He last directed the movie ‘My name is Khan’ in 2008.

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- Unknown Updated at: Wednesday, August 01, 2012

SRK to endorse India's First Dance movie!

Shahrukh Khan who is currently busy with his project with Yash Raj Films, is also finding time to endorse the things he like the most and it seems that new comer Saahil Prem's attempts has been in the radar of the actor and he is excited about the project. He has also offered helping hands to the actor and his company will now be helping the movie have its post-production and endorsement works done. The movie is named 'Someday'.

The movie will be a full on dance movie with locking, popping, b-boying, shadow dance, finger tutting and wacking. So its great for Saahil to find a mentor that is as strong as Shahrukh Khan to endorse his first of efforts. “Though Saahil doesn’t have a godfather in the industry, Shah Rukh Khan has stepped up to support the newcomer and he already has immense faith in his abilities. He feels Saahil has a global appeal that very few Bollywood stars have,” says a trade source.

Someday is being produced by Paanch Rupaiya Barah Aaana Productions Pvt. Ltd.

SRK is also busy with interactions while he is in London as recently he did a 2 hour interaction session at the BBC Asian station and it was said to be a complete program with lots of fans calling in to hear from the star. A source said, "It was a special two hour show that had SRK hosting the entire slot. The show also had fans speaking to him and he played songs from his films. The actor was extremely happy and loved to be on the show as a host as he has never done anything like this on radio before."

The source adds, "SRK is in London for the shoot of his film with Yash Chopra and he always loves interacting with his fans. He had requested the radio channel to get the best of his songs from Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge, Kal Ho Naa Ho, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, Darr, Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna, Main Hoon Na and Om Shanti Om."

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- Unknown Updated at: Monday, June 25, 2012

Shahrukh Khan visits Charu Khandal

Shahrukh Khan who was in London all this while shooting for his next YRF venture visited Charu Khandal when he returned to Mumbai. 

Charu Ashok Khandal is an animator who is working with Shah Rukh Khan's production house Red Chillies. She met with an accident on 25th March 2012 when the auto rickshaw in which she was travelling was hit a speeding Honda City car which was driven by a drunk driver. Charu is admitted at Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani hospital. 

Charu's friend said that, "Shah Rukh Khan visited Charu on March 28th. He spoke to her family and assured them financial and moral support. He said as per the doctors and the treatment given, the hospital charges might go up to 11-12 Lakhs for Charu's recovery for which someone from Red Chillies will get back to them. However, the family is predicting the charges to go much above the quoted amount, considering how precarious her condition is. So far, it's only the family who has been paying the massive hospital bills. The hospital charges are not less either."

She added, "Charu is the eldest amongst the four siblings and she is the sole earning member. Her father is a teacher and doesn't make sufficient money. All her younger siblings are still studying. The family had saved Charu's marriage which is to happen in November 2012. It would be nice if people would come ahead and offer help. I have been giving Charu's dad's account number to whoever wishes to help."

Her friend has even been encouraging everyone on facebook to chip in if possible. If you too want to help Charu, you can like the 'Justice for Charu and Vikrant' page on Facebook.

It is said that Charu underwent a surgery yesterday and the doctors have called it successful. The next six days are crucial to know how she is responding to the treatment.

Author : Suja , a management trainee, programmer, movie enthusiast and a fashion critic who loves to enjoy each moment of her life and is crazy  about music! (suja@indiaviolet.com)

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- Unknown Updated at: Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Sonam and Chitrangada to dance for SRK!

No, this is not a movie we are talking about. Its the new Shah Rukh Khan show for UTV stars, which is named 'Superstar Santa', the show will be aired soon on the channel. The venture is second from 'Red Chillies Entertainment' for the channel. They had earlier produced 'Up Close and Personal with PZ' for the channel.

The 'Superstar Santa' version will see Sonam Kapoor, Chitrangada Singh and many more stars dance with and for the king Khan. It is believed that the show is about people's problems and how the stars sort these out. According to sources, one can expect to see the creme de la creme from the glamour world on the show.

"Super Star Santa" is expected to go on air later this month.

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- Unknown Updated at: Friday, December 09, 2011

Shahrukh Khan to be sued?

Shahrukh Khan is already facing a controversy as the release dates for Ra.One is appearing closer. The latest news is from Bangalore where a business man claims that the game on Ra.One is the original idea from his company and this was stolen to make the Ra.One game reality.

The complainant, Shakir Aga claims that he had shared the idea of the game to an US based TV artist Lida Moghagheg and this was later mailed to the Cheif Finance officer to Red Chillies Entertainment in 2010, the idea was for a mobile game with the theme. 

However, the source from Red Chillies Entertainment mentioned that this is rubbish "We haven't received any legal notice as of now, there are always going to be claims and counter claims, we haven't heard of any business man from Bangalore and also haven't received any legal notices yet". Further the person added " There are few 'I said' and 'I told' claims but there are no valid evidences to the claim and I am sure the complaint doesn't hold water" concluded the person confirming this to be a false positive.

The development of this case is highly in watch, because if the legal notice is found to be false then there can be a counter case against the complainant. The current case demands a ransom of 40 crore to settle the dispute.

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- Unknown Updated at: Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Juhi Chawla Not happy with SRK!

The audio launch of Ra.One had opened up another rough side of the actor when his partner and long time friend Juhi Chawla said that she was unhappy with Shah Rukh Khan! The events started when Shahrukh had dedicated the music album to Bobby, the CEO of Red Chillies Entertainment and Yash Johar, he said " I want to dedicate this album to Yash Joharji and Bobby. When we started our company, Red Chillies Entertainment, the one who helped me start it was Bobby..."

Following this comment, Juhi Chawla mentioned that she had concerns over the comment and she felt that the acknowledgment came in late. Bobby, the actress's brother is ill and is in the state of coma for few months. Juhi felt that Shahrukh should have mentioned the role of Bobby much earlier than now. She said "I have mixed feelings on Shahrukh's statement at Ra.One music launch, Bobby was very much involved in the song with Akon and it was then he met the mishap"

The actress also added that "It saddens me that the acknowledgment came so late"

She also felt that being the CEO of the Red Chillies Entertainment, there was never enough credits being given to Bobby. She also added that Shahrukh is so busy that he doesn't have time for his old friends.

So, the bottomline is that there is a crack in friendship, Shah Rukh Khan has been doing very well professionally and personally and has only on few occasions dropped friendship's, which include Aamir Khan, Salman Khan. He got a pack of bad messages when he dropped many of his friends and invited Priyanka Chopra for his Eid party. 

We will have to wait further to see how this develops.

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- Unknown Updated at: Friday, September 16, 2011

Aamir Khan Slips out of Preity's Show!

Mumbai: In the latest turn of evens when UTV Stars thought of making its entry into the media war with the 'Up close and personal with PZ' show and with the brightest star of this year, Aamir Khan. Aamir had different thoughts and have opted out of the show. Although the star has been in good touch with the producers UTV and the actress Preity Zinta, the star did opt out of the show and is now being replaced with cousin Imran Khan!

The speculations are strong on Aamir's decision and some of the media mentions that the rivalry is not with the actress or UTV, speaking to us they mentioned:

"It may be due to the fact that the show is being produced by Shahrukh's Red Chillies Entertainment and as you will know how Aamir Bhai and Shahrukh holds relationship"

So if this is to be believed then we might see another start of star war, but we never know what is true until there are more statements from actors on this. For now, the show will not air with Aamir Khan and it will be the junior star or nephew of Aamir Khan, Imran doing the show!

And the show goes on!

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- Unknown Updated at: Wednesday, August 24, 2011